maandag 25 augustus 2014

Floki is named after trickster god Loki by joke because Michael Hirst the writer liked it that way. But he is also named after the fantastic navigator and boat builder Flóki Vilgerðarson.

In the first season we see how Floki is introduced to us and young Bjorn the son of Ragnar. We see how he develop boats and how he choose wood. He is also the healer of Ragnar during that season.

We will see him in that knowledge again in season 2 but also he plays a betray game with King Horik and Ragnar. He starts to disguise Ragnar after a while and starts his play of betray we thought he would do that on Ragnar but it was a fouls play between the two friends. http://vikings.wikia.com/wiki/Floki

The real Flóki Vilgerðarson found Iceland as first Norsemen. His navigation was found with ravens. When the raven didn't return there was land ahead. He also went to the Shetland and Faroe Islands.

Is more a director then actor that is what he thinks of himself. In my opinion he is good at both. He is the more experimental one of the Skarsgård family almost every family member is actor. He has grew up with acting. He is more known in Sweden where he did plays like Hamlet. Lots of TV productions and shorts but after his part in Vikings and Kon-Tiki he is also known over the world.

Athelstan
is a monk who turned from Christianity into the mythology world of the Vikings.
He became a slave of Ragnar in the first season. In the second season he gets
involved into a change from the Viking way into the Christianity again when he
becomes the advisor of King Eckbert. We are not sure what is going to happen
with him as character.

According
to the history of the real Athelstan he is the one who fight every Viking out
of England and then become King after all the Vikings are gone and there is a
land to rule. He became the first king of England.

vrijdag 15 augustus 2014

Today the panel from SDCC was released by Vikings History Channel.
Finally we could see what happened to our beloved cast and crew.
The panel tell us little about season 3 actually not what we already knew.
The cast cheered at us the lovely fans of Vikings. With 2 million fans around the globe there was another message this week from Alexander Ludwig.

Also a spoiler? The message from Katheryn to Alexander (Bjorn) and Clive (Rollo) when they had a message and blamed the youngest son of Clive that the messages were baffled. #Likefatherlikeson. So is Rollo the dad of Bjorn instead of Ragnar?

zondag 10 augustus 2014

Today an announcement came from Catalyst Game Labs who has got liscences to make two boardgames from the TV series Vikings.

Jarl: The Vikings Tile Laying Game

The first game will be called: Jarl: The Vikings Tile Laying Game. Here you can fight between the characters. You can choose which character will join you in raids during a long winter period. Tiles will take you trough the board every step you take will take you to another tile. Tactic game. This game will come out at the end of the year.

Vikings: The Board Game

After Jarl: The Vikings Tile Laying Game. The second game Vikings: The Board Game will come out. It is a game for 2-5 players and will be based on the series. This Strategy game will let you go to the seer and let fulfill you different offers to him.

zaterdag 2 augustus 2014

He will be there in three episodes of Vikings season 3. The character
will be dark because we live in the dark ages of the Viking period of time. He
doesn’t know if it will stay by the three episodes he hopes for more because he
is a fan of the show. He told that he might be the cause of the dead of a main
character. At least he was there when the character died. He is still the
wanderer and doesn't let loose anything else on his character. The wanderer
could have every occupation like a poet or maybe something else. He is mysterious
about the wanderer.

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